Marie Brenner is the author of five books and Writer at Large for Vanity Fair having joined the staff in 1985. She has also been a contributing editor for New York magazine and The New Yorker. She is the winner of six Front Page awards for her journalism and her expose of the tobacco industry, 'The Man Who Knew Too Much', was the basis for the 1999 movie The Insider, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Her article 'Erotomania' became the Lifetime movie Obsessed. She lives in New York City.
